How to Learn On Page SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

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By Monteath
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Some tools of SEO expert and beginners alike.

Want to learn more about SEO (Search Engine Optimization)? There is on page and off page SEO, and the following article will help to teach you some of the most important parts of on page SEO.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Keyword list

Step 1

First of all, make a list of keywords that you want your website or blog to rank highly for. On page SEO concentrates on writing, so make a list compiling of a "main" keyword and several "secondary" keywords that you are going to target.
Step 2

Make sure to include the main keyword in the title, and a secondary keyword if you can pull this off naturally.
Step 3

You will want the main keyword to appear in your article, website, or blog post approximately 3-5% of the time. This is good on page SEO and will help get your pages recognized for your keywords without getting flagged for spam.
Step 4

Use headers on your pages and/or posts, and include your keywords inside of these header tags (like 'h1' or 'h3'). Good on page SEO experts know that keywords in headers and titles are given more weight than those just in the normal text.
Step 5

Make sure your main keyword is in the last sentence of the website or blog post, as well. This confirms to the search engine robots what your page/post is all about and is good on page SEO practice that is often overlooked.

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Monteath said

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on 4/5/2009 Thanks for the comments. Don't feel completely overwhelmed - there's a lot to learn about SEO, and sometimes you find conflicting information. But learning even the basic SEO stuff really does help out immensely with writing online. Glad to help. Thanks for commenting on my SEO article!